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Keir Starmer's next attack on pensioners exposed as he refuses to rule out two betrayals
Daily Express ^

Posted on 09/11/2024 10:23:12 PM PDT by RandFan

Sir Keir Starmer is under major fire this afternoon after he refused to rule out clobbering pensioners even more in the forthcoming Budget.

At Prime Minister’s Questions, Tory MP Louie French rose to demand answers around rumours the government may be planning to withdraw two further crucial support measures from older people.

Mr French specified pensioners’ free bus passes, and the single person council tax discount.

Sir Keir ducked the simple question, replying: “As he knows very well, I am not going to preempt the Budget. It will all be set out in due course.”

With a casual wave of his hand, the Prime Minister casually dismissed major concerns some of the most vulnerable Britons may now be feeling, just 24 hours after the Labour Government demonstrated such a callous attitude towards their Winter Fuel Payments.

(Excerpt) Read more at express.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: buspasses; jihadist; keirstarmer; labour; labourparty; louiefrench; twotierkeir; unitedkingdom
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There's a 25% discount on Property tax if you live alone.

Tends to be older people and it amounts to an average of $600...

He's really hammering the pensioners (again!) if he takes away that discount...

1 posted on 09/11/2024 10:23:12 PM PDT by RandFan
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$600 per month?


2 posted on 09/11/2024 10:27:54 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist! )
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To: Gene Eric

A year


3 posted on 09/11/2024 10:30:00 PM PDT by RandFan
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To: RandFan

They [left leaders everywhere] want old people dead - if they don’t have their votes in hand.


4 posted on 09/11/2024 10:42:08 PM PDT by citizen (Put all LBQTwhatever programming on a new subscription service: PERV-TV)
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To: RandFan

You don’t need a car just ride the bus. Oh sorry you can’t ride the bus, get a bike. You’re not healthy enough to ride a bike? I guess you will have to walk.


5 posted on 09/11/2024 11:02:35 PM PDT by webheart
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To: citizen; Red Badger; null and void; ransomnote; rx; rxsid

[They [left leaders everywhere] want old people dead]

That’s correct.

1) Obamacare (USA)
2) COVID-19(84) (EVERYWHERE)


6 posted on 09/11/2024 11:15:58 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: citizen

It costs the British National Health System a lot of money to take care of the elderly, if they die off quicker, it saves the NHS a lot of money.


7 posted on 09/11/2024 11:50:23 PM PDT by srmanuel
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To: RandFan

Subsidized heating oil. Subsidized property taxes. Subsidized bus passes. It turns out, all that free stuff gets expensive when you add it all up. Especially when there are immigrants to feed and house.

I guess the lesson here is don’t become dependent on the government...


8 posted on 09/12/2024 12:17:15 AM PDT by ETCM (“There is no security, no safety, in the appeasement of evil.” — Ronald Reagan)
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I guess the lesson here is don’t become dependent on the government...

Agreed. No one would trust their finances with a broke, corrupt bank or other financial institution. Why trust broke, corrupt government?

9 posted on 09/12/2024 12:37:15 AM PDT by Tell It Right (1 Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: ETCM

Americans are big time dependent on government. Just medical alone, every American on Medicare is a huge drain on the country.


10 posted on 09/12/2024 3:13:24 AM PDT by napscoordinator (DeSantis is a beast! Florida is the freest state in the country! )
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To: RandFan

I’ll bet he’s not cutting back on freebees for migrants.


11 posted on 09/12/2024 4:31:07 AM PDT by rbg81
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To: RandFan

The Maoists are in charge now. Brace yourself,Britain...you’re in for a bumpy ride.


12 posted on 09/12/2024 4:45:51 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Import The Third World,Become The Third World)
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To: citizen
Moral of the story:

If Tories stop acting like conservatives and relentlessly squander the country's substance, the Socialists will gain power in the ruins and squander human dignity and national sovereignty while blaming the Tories.

When the financial reckoning comes, it usually comes with a strongman of the left, not of the right, who will rule remorselessly, all the while being universally adored as a Savior.

Are we on the cusp of the reckoning?


13 posted on 09/12/2024 5:52:22 AM PDT by nathanbedford (Attack, repeat, attack! - Bull Halsey)
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To: srmanuel

Another cold winter is approaching for thr UK and much of Europe, as they doggedly insist on unreliable power from wind and solar. Many will die via cold-born illness.


14 posted on 09/12/2024 7:09:43 AM PDT by citizen (Put all LBQTwhatever programming on a new subscription service: PERV-TV)
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[They [left leaders everywhere] want old people dead]

... old WHITE people ...

15 posted on 09/12/2024 7:11:14 AM PDT by Salman (It's not a slippery slope if it was part of the program all along. )
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It saves money for the NHS to freeze the elderly, they are just worthless eaters anyway. I’m being sarcastic but it’s not far from the truth.

The UK and just about all the other Western Countries are doing things like cutting off aid to the elderly, while simultaneously eliminating the border and allowing much younger fighting age men from the middle east into their countries.

It seems insane and completely crazy, the leaders of these countries are not stupid people, they are doing these things for a reason.


16 posted on 09/12/2024 7:16:33 AM PDT by srmanuel
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To: nathanbedford

Indeed, the whole of the UK appears lost, politically and physically.

Is America that far behind, if Trump loses? Even if he wins, without sufficient gains elsewhere, his tasks look insurmountable.


17 posted on 09/12/2024 7:19:25 AM PDT by citizen (Put all LBQTwhatever programming on a new subscription service: PERV-TV)
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To: srmanuel
Just hire this guy to build an abattoir for the elderly....although he's not a Mason.



"Mind you, this is a real beaut. None of your blood caked on the walls and flesh flying out of the windows incommoding the passers-by with this one."
18 posted on 09/12/2024 7:20:51 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: srmanuel

They are following the ways of the historical dictators. Others insanely belive there is truly global burning. Still others follow Klaus Schwab and his UN/One World maddness.

Whatever the thinking, killing off the aged, enslaving the poor and imprisoning dissenters is in their plan, while they live healthy and happy.


19 posted on 09/12/2024 7:37:42 AM PDT by citizen (Put all LBQTwhatever programming on a new subscription service: PERV-TV)
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To: RandFan

THESE SAME PENSIONERS ARE THE ONES WHO FOUGHT TO SAVE THE UK IN W W II


20 posted on 09/12/2024 7:59:40 AM PDT by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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